Milk bottle holder



MILK BOTTLE HOLDER Filed May 2. 1932 Patented Oct. 31, 1933 PATENT'cerros MILK BOTTLE HOLDER John Toddand John Craig, Glasgow, ScotlandApplication May 2, 1932, Serial No. 608,818, and in Great Britain July18, `1931 2 Claims.

It is well-known that milk is nowr mostly delivered in bottles and theseare usually left at the respective doors of the customers and taken inat the convenience of the housewife or maid,

5 and these are very frequently surreptitiously taken away, with theresult that great inconvenience and annoyance to the housewife iscaused, and considerable expense for loss of bottles to the dairyman,apart from the loss of the milk to the householder.

The object of this invention is inter alia to obviate this by theprovision of a very simple and eicient device-different methods havebeen previously proposed-by which the bottle conitaining the milk cannotpossibly be taken away once it is placed therein. The device is fixed tothe top of the frame of the door, and the closing of the doorautomatically locks and retains the bottle against removal until thedoor is opened, 20 when the bottle is automatically released and can bereadily withdrawn, all as hereinafter de scribed with reference to thedrawing and pointed out in the claims.

In order that our invention may be properly understood and readilycarried into effect, we have hereunto appended one sheet of drawing, ofwhich Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the device showing the bottlein the locked position.

Figure 2 is a similar View to Figure 1, but with the bottle releasedready for withdrawal.

Figure 3 is a plan of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing device in position at top of theframe of the door.

According to this invention, and referring to the drawing, the device isof box-shape`d formation of aluminium or any other suitable metal ormaterial, the body A of which has on its underside an open slot orrecess B running the com-l l plete length of the body A. The slot B isof suit-V able cross section to admit of a milk bottle being slid alongit, only, i. e. it could not be inserted by being pushed upwards fromthe bottom of the device, but must be entered from the end and slidalong as stated. The body A of the device is also provided with asuitable hole with a ridge formed round the circle thereof, and intowhich hole a plunger C is inserted, having a flange D on the top sidethereof and resting on the ridge. On thetop side of the plunger C, thereis also, on each side, a bar or arm E, which extends over a recess F, onthe upper side of the body A, and which bars or arms E are integral withthe plunger C, or otherwise suitably attached thereto. The plunger C hasalso a bevelled edge O,

on the lower side thereof. A Twhaped piece is also provided, the leg Gof which projects when free outside the body, each horizontal arm G1,G2, of the T-piece having xed thereto, or integral therewith, at itsextremity a wedge or incline-plane H. Suitable stops or guide-pins J areprovided in the recess F to limit the travel of the T-piece. A suitableflat bow or other suitable spring, is positioned in the recess F behindthe T-piece, and the top portion of the spring K bears against the wallof the recess F, and the ends against the back of the wedge or incline--planes H. Suitable holes L are provided for fixing the device to theframe M of the door N.

The device is fixed to the top frame M of the door N, as shown in Figure4, by the wood-screws, or any other suitable means, so that the leg G ofthe T-piece projects outwards when the door is open, the guides or stopsJ limiting the travel of the T-piece and when the door is closed, theaction of closing causes the T-piece to be pushed inwards against thespring, compressing it, when the plunger C, by its own weight, falls,the lower part thereof projecting into the slot B of the body A, of thedevice.

When the bottle is inserted into the slot B, it strikes against or getsinto contact with the bevel-edge O of the plunger C,and raises theplunger C, and, when the bottle lis directly under neath the plunger,the latter drops into the recess 8 P in the neck of the bottle Q; abovethe cap, and the bottle becomes locked and cannot be removed until thedoor is again opened, when it becomes unlocked by the release of .theT-piece and the spring K acting 'thereon as above stated, when thebottle can be readily removed.

We may have two, three or other number of the body of the device in onecasting or stamping with, of course, the` various working parts foreach.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declarethat what we claim iszl. A milk bottle safety holder comprising arectangular frame 'having a partition member to provide an open chamberabove the partition and channel guideways below the partition to receivethe rim of a bottle, the said partition member having an opening cuttherethrough, a plunger movable in the opening into lowered position toengage the top of a bottle in the guideways, a spring pressed memberhaving a pair of arms housed in the open chamber movable in onedirection to hold the plunger in raised posi- 1101,

tion, attachment means adapted for securing the rectangular frame to thecasing having a hinged door, and a leg carried by the spring pressedmember to project beyond the frame to Contact with the door upon closingthe same whereby to cause movement of the arms in the reverse directionand release the plunger to permit movement of the same.

2. A milk bottle safety holder comprising a rectangular frame having anopen chamber and channel guideways to receive the rim of a milk bottle,attachment means for securing the frame to the casing havinga doorhinged thereto, a T'- shaped member slidably mounted in the open chamberhaving a pair of oppositely disposed arms, and an intermediate leg toproject beyond the frame, inclined lugs attached to the oppositelydisposed arms, a spring housed in the open chamber for engaging theoppositely disposed arms to force the T-shaped member in one direction,a movable plunger, a pair of oppositely projecting bars secured to thetop of the plunger for engaging the inclined lugs to hold the plunger inthe open chamber when the spring forces the T-shaped member in the saiddirection, and means whereby the closing ofthe door engages theprojecting leg of the T-shaped member and forces the same With theinclined lugs in the reverse direction to release the plunger and permitmovement of the same to engage the top of a milk bottle held in thechannel guideways.

JOHN TODD. J OHN CRAIG.

